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Arva

Arva is a girl's name that peaked in 1926, when it was the 1,721st most popular in the United States. It has not appeared in the national data since 1973. About 150 Arvas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 75.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 6 12 18 24 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Arva

By the numbers

Total US births
552
Estimated living today
150
Median age today
75
Peak year
1926
Best rank
1,721st
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1893

How old the living Arvas are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 6 12 18 24 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 552 babies given the name since 1893, about 150 are alive — 27 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1950 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where Arva is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Arva is most concentrated in Utah (120.5×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1926

The most popular girls’ names the year Arva peaked:

All the names of 1926

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Arva against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.